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Femi
Femi

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The proof-of- work with Ansible

Seeing "changed=1" is the most satisfying feeling in DevOps. 🚀
​I just finished building a playbook that handles the full onboarding of a new admin user across multiple Ubuntu servers simultaneously.

​The stack:
​Control Node: Ubuntu 24.04 (Brown)
​Managed Nodes: 3x Ubuntu VMs
​Orchestration: Ansible
​Security: SHA-512 Hashing & SSH Key injection

​By moving away from manual useradd commands, I’m ensuring that my infrastructure is consistent, secure, and easily reproducible. Every error today was just a lesson in how the Linux shadow file works under the hood.
​Moving one step closer to a full automation 🐧💻

​#Ansible #DevOps #SysAdmin #Tech
#Infrastructure

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